Lunar Science: Ancient and ModernS. Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Company, 1886 - 89 páginas |
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... orbit is about 60 times the breadth of the earth . Therefore the moon is distant from us by about thirty times the ... orbit of the moon being an ellipse , and not a circle , this distance varies with her motions . During the perigee ...
... orbit is about 60 times the breadth of the earth . Therefore the moon is distant from us by about thirty times the ... orbit of the moon being an ellipse , and not a circle , this distance varies with her motions . During the perigee ...
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... orbit of 600,000,000 of miles at the rate of 68,000 miles an hour , our won- der glows with worship , and admiring science becomes an adoring psalm . It will be interesting to inquire what the ancients knew of the moon's size . Thales ...
... orbit of 600,000,000 of miles at the rate of 68,000 miles an hour , our won- der glows with worship , and admiring science becomes an adoring psalm . It will be interesting to inquire what the ancients knew of the moon's size . Thales ...
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... orbit , but inclined 1 ° 32 ' , her poles appear alternately for a little while to our gaze . The libration in longitude means that , as her orbital motion is not so uniform as her rotation , she sometimes exhibits more of her eastern ...
... orbit , but inclined 1 ° 32 ' , her poles appear alternately for a little while to our gaze . The libration in longitude means that , as her orbital motion is not so uniform as her rotation , she sometimes exhibits more of her eastern ...
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... Promptest the tripping dance , th ' exhilarating song . ' To understand the reason of the harvest moon , we will , as before , consider the moon's orbit as coinciding with the ecliptic , because we may THE MOON'S MOTIONS . 71.
... Promptest the tripping dance , th ' exhilarating song . ' To understand the reason of the harvest moon , we will , as before , consider the moon's orbit as coinciding with the ecliptic , because we may THE MOON'S MOTIONS . 71.
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... Thomson " computed that if by any sudden shock the earth were arrested in its orbit , the heat generated by the impulse would be equal to 11.200 degrees of the centi- grade thermometer , even if the capacity of our planet 74 LUNAR SCIENCE .
... Thomson " computed that if by any sudden shock the earth were arrested in its orbit , the heat generated by the impulse would be equal to 11.200 degrees of the centi- grade thermometer , even if the capacity of our planet 74 LUNAR SCIENCE .
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Página 44 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess, excellently bright! Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose: Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess, excellently bright!
Página 17 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night — Sunset divides the sky with her — a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains ; heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the day joins the past Eternity; While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest...
Página 38 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 79 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 57 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries ? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case ; I read it in thy looks ; thy languisht grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries...
Página 5 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 51 - mong oldest trees Feel palpitations when thou lookest in : O Moon ! old boughs lisp forth a holier din The while they feel thine airy fellowship. Thou dost bless everywhere, with silver lip Kissing dead things to life.
Página 45 - TO THE MOON ART thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth...
Página 55 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.